Interview: Fear and Loving: Macklemore and Marriage Equality by Larry Mizell, Jr.

Larry Mizell, Jr.

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“I knew that I wanted to write this song,” he continues. “You can only listen to your peers say ‘faggot’ for so long—say ‘that’s gay,’ to use that as the ultimate dis or slander, clowning someone’s manhood—before it’s like, this is wack. How can I want to whup somebody’s ass—a white dude, for saying the n-word, or another dude for calling one of my homegirls a bitch—yet saying ‘faggot’ and ‘gay’ gets the pass all day long? Combine that with the story we keep seeing: Kid gets bullied in school, nobody says anything, kid commits suicide. How long are we just gonna let that slide? Can we at least acknowledge this issue? Now, do I think doing a song about it is going to change anything? Hopefully, it brings about some awareness, or at the very least it gets people thinking.”

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